Object Grouping Dialog

Group Name:

Specify a group name.

Description:

Displays the description of the group (if it was specified during group creation).

This button temporarily closes the dialog box for selecting an object when you need to clarify its group.

Enables/Disables highlighting a group’s objects on the screen.

Including Unnamed

Switches on/off the input of unnamed groups in the list in the Object Grouping dialog box.

This button temporarily closes the dialog box for selecting the objects of a group.

Selectable

Switches on/off the mode of whole group selection if one object is selected.

The selection is controlled by the PICKSTYLE variable:

·          if the variable has a value of 1, then when selecting any object in the group, all objects in the group are also selected;

·          if the variable has a value of 0, then when specifying an object, only that object is selected.

Unnamed

Switches on/off the mode for creating unnamed groups.

This button temporarily closes the dialog box to allow selecting objects to delete from the selected group.

This button temporarily closes the dialog box to allow selecting objects to add them to the selected group.

This button updates a change of name for a group.

This button opens the Order Group dialog box to change the order of objects in a group.

This button updates the changed description for the selected group.

This button deletes the selected group. Objects of the group are not deleted from the document.

This button changes the selectable property of a group in the document.

Group Name

List of existing groups.

Description

Shows the description of the selected group in the list (if it was specified when the group was created)

Remove from position (0-3)

Field to enter the current position (number) of the object in the group.

Enter new position number for the object (0-3):

Specifies the new position number of objects in a group.

Number of objects (less than 4):

Specifies the number of objects, whose positions are changed.

This button changes the positions of objects in the group.

This button opens the Object Grouping dialog box to display the order of objects in the group.

This button changes the objects into their opposite order.

The button for the previous object selection.

The button for the next object selection.

Object: 1

Shows the current position of the object in the group.

Total: 4

Shows the number of objects in the group.

?

Outputs to the command line a list of names and descriptions of existing groups.

Order

Changes the ordinal numbers of objects in a group.

Position number – specifies the position number of the object whose order is being changed. To change the order of several objects, specify the number of the first of them.

Reverse number – changes the order of objects to the opposite.

Add

Adds objects to the group.

Remove

Deletes objects from the group. When deleting all objects from a group, the definition (description) of the group remains in the document.

Explode

Deleting a group. The definition (description) of the group is deleted. Objects included in the group are not deleted from the document.

REName

Edits the name of the existing group.

Selectable

Changing the group selectability in a document (managing by the PICKSTYLE variable):

·          if the group is selectable, PICKSTYLE = 1, when selecting any object in the group, all objects in the group are also selected;

·          if the group is non-selectable, PICKSTYLE = 0, when specifying an object, only that object is selected.

Create

Creates the named group.

A group name can be up to 25 characters long and can contain letters, numbers, and special characters (dollar sign "$", hyphen "-", and underscore "_")

Enter a group option [?/Order/Add/Remove/Explode/ REName/Selectable/ Create] <Create>:

Select an option or press ENTER to create a named group.

Enter a group name or [?]:

Enter a name for the new group and press ENTER. Or select the ? option to view a list of names and descriptions of existing groups. If the name matches the name of an existing group, the command line additionally prompts:

Group 'A' already exists.

Redefine it? [Yes/No] <No>:

Yes – the definition (description) of the group will be changed;

No – the group will not be created.

Enter a group description:

Enter a description for the new group and press ENTER. You can leave the description blank.

Select objects or [?]:

Select objects and press ENTER to create the group.

Or select the ? option to display additional object selection options.

If the selected set of objects matches an existing group in the drawing, the command line additionally prompts:

Group 'B' with the same objects already exists. Create a new group anyway? [Yes/No]:

Yes – a new group will be created: Group 'A' was created.

No – a group will not be created: Nothing selected. No group created.

Selection of the Order option.

Enter a group name or [?]:

Enter the name of an existing group in which you want to change the position numbers of objects and press ENTER. There must be at least two objects in a group.

Or select the ? option to view the list of names and descriptions of existing groups.

Enter position number of the object to reorder (0 - 1) or [Reverse order]:

Enter the current position (position number) of an object in a group and press ENTER. Object numbering starts with zero.

Or select the Reverse order option to change the current order of objects to the opposite.

Enter new position number for the object (0 - 3):

Enter a new position number for an object in a group.

Enter number of objects to reorder (1 - 4):

Enter the number of objects whose position numbers are being changed.

Selection of the Add option.

Enter a group name or [?]:

Enter the name of an existing group to which you want to add objects and press ENTER.

Or select the ? option to view a list of names and descriptions of existing groups.

Select objects [?/End]:

Select objects and press ENTER (or select the End option) to add them to the group.

Or select the ? option to display additional object selection options.

Selection of the Remove option.

Enter a group name or [?]:

Enter the name of an existing group from which you want to remove objects and press ENTER.

Or select the ? option to view a list of names and descriptions of existing groups.

Select objects [?/End]:

Select objects and press ENTER (or select the End option) to remove objects from the group. The command line displays the number of removed and remaining objects in the group.

Or select the ? option to display additional object selection options.

Selection of the Explode option.

Enter a group name or [?]:

Enter the name of an existing group you want to remove and press ENTER.

Or select the ? option to display a list of names and descriptions of existing groups.

Selection of the REName option.

Enter a group name to rename or [?]:

Enter the name of an existing group you want to rename and press ENTER.

Or select the ? option to display a list of names and descriptions of existing groups.

Enter a new name for group or [?]:

Enter the new group name and press ENTER.

Selection of the Selectable option.

Enter a group name or [?]:

Enter the name of an existing group for which you want to change the selectability property and press ENTER.

Or select the ? option to view a list of names and descriptions of existing groups.

This group is not selectable, do you want to change it [Yes/No]?:

For non-selectable groups, select the option:

Yes – the value of the PICKSTYLE variable for the group will be 1 (when selecting any object in the group, all objects in the group are selected);

No – the value of the PICKSTYLE variable for the group will remain 0 (when selecting an object in the group, only that one is selected).

This group is selectable, do you want to change it [Yes/No]?:

For selectable groups, select the option:

Yes – the value of the PICKSTYLE variable for the group will be 0 (when selecting an object in the group, only that one is selected);

No – the value of the PICKSTYLE variable for the group will remain 1 (when selecting any object in the group, all objects in the group are selected).